N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Goof 16 Mischievous character in West African folklore

17 Hosts

18 David who took 15 years to write “The History of England”

19 Cut into

20 Andy Capp’s wife in the comics

21 Somme

times

22 Fabergé egg recipient

24 “The pretty worm of Nilus … that kills and pains not,” per Shakespeare 26 Concept in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism

30 Swashbuckler’s implement 32 Course

34 “You couldn’t be more wrong!”

35 Diplomatic

successes 39 Find inner

strength

41 ___ Island 42 Will can

change it 44 Total

package? 46 Shameless

sycophant 49 Doubly hyphenated fig.

50 Book it

52 Where the

idiom “on a roll” comes from

55 Self starter? 57 Attendant of

Dionysus

60 New Balance

competitor 61 Passiveaggressive tactic

64 Renter’s

amenity

65 Gaze at with

appreciation

DOWN

1 Computer store

2 Have ___ (be able to save face)

3 Hit hard

4 Snarl

5 Sch. whose yearbook is the “Gumbo” 6 Strauss’s “___ Nacht in Venedig” 7 Brouhaha 8 Aim for

9 Sets right 10 “Seriously!” 11 Place of salubrity

12 Two in a row, say?

13 Capital city near Kangaroo Island

14 It’s called paraffin oil in the U.K. 15 Starts of

hedges

23 Unkempt

25 Hold (up)

27 Unfulfilled

duty

28 Staff

29 Sine

qua non

31 What a whale watcher may watch

33 Mystery writer Buchanan 35 Doesn’t go straight, in a way

36 Birthplace of Lewis Carroll

37 Julius Caesar’s first wife

38 Wordsworth wrote one about a cuckoo

40 Web access

co. 43 It has furrowed gray bark

45 Came in

behind

47 ___ Brown, Whoopi Goldberg’s role in “Ghost”

48 Established

facts

51 Like some

44-Across 53 Part of mayo that’s most popular?

54 No longer on

the table

56 Cranks (up) 58 Urges

59 Play a

critical role? 61 Block

letters?

62 Bryce Harper when he won a 2015 M.V.P. award, e.g. 63 Tax